Genre: | Music |
Presenter: | Bill Kenny |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | English |
Channel: | CBC Television |
Num Seasons: | 1 |
Producer: | Elie Savoie |
Runtime: | 30 minutes |
The Bill Kenny Show was a Canadian music television series which aired on CBC Television in 1966.
Bill Kenny, a member of the popular vocal quartet The Ink Spots in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s and later a solo singer, hosted this series. He became a Vancouver resident in 1961 and became among the first black performers to star in a nationally broadcast television series in Canada.[1]
Series regulars included singing group The Accents, with Fraser MacPherson's house band. Visiting artists included Susan Pesklevits who was later known as Susan Jacks.[2]
This half-hour series was broadcast on Sundays at 3:00 p.m. (North American Eastern time) from 22 May to 10 July 1966.